This "spindrift" (6) cuts to the marrow with its chilling mist, its clarifying ambiguity. From Wordnik.com. [A Motley Vision] Reference
In the spindrift orb to grow or char strange wings. From Wordnik.com. [Upwards, Into the White Eye Rising] Reference
Gone like the spindrift shuddering down the squall. From Wordnik.com. [Problems of Immanence: studies critical and constructive] Reference
Gale winds screamed and slashed whitecaps into spindrift. From Wordnik.com. [Shadowfane]
And the spindrift struck me in the eyes like hands full of sand. From Wordnik.com. [Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure] Reference
Down ahead, in wrack and spindrift, the enemy band had appeared. From Wordnik.com. [Time Patrolman]
The spindrift, drying, was like a lock of a child's fine white hair. From Wordnik.com. [The Ninja]
Out of a cloudless sky the red sun dropped below the flying spindrift. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference
The ledge on which I crouched was continually swept by small spindrift avalanches. From Wordnik.com. [The Greatest Survival Stories Ever Told]
A few gulls rode the wind, which skirled bleak, bearing odors of sea and bite of spindrift. From Wordnik.com. [The Stars Are Also Fire]
Driven to towering heights by the wind, breakers raged shoreward, crests frayed into spindrift. From Wordnik.com. [Stormwarden]
For an instant, the bowsprit rose, a glistening spear aimed at a sky which smoked with spindrift. From Wordnik.com. [Stormwarden]
Topside, the brigantine seemed frail as a sliver slammed through a black expanse of spindrift and sea. From Wordnik.com. [Shadowfane]
Warmth came unseasonably late to the latitudes of Keithland, and the ocean tossed, coldly veiled in spindrift. From Wordnik.com. [Shadowfane]
We were close to the land as the morning approached, but could see nothing of it through the snow and spindrift. From Wordnik.com. [South: the story of Shackleton’s last expedition 1914–1917] Reference
A damp chill crept down my chest from the base of my neck, where spindrift had gotten inside my parka and soaked my shirt. From Wordnik.com. [The Greatest Survival Stories Ever Told]
Seas rushed, boomed, flung bitter spindrift off their crests; they shimmered green on their backs, dark purple in their troughs. From Wordnik.com. [The Game Of Empire]
Captain declaring that another squall was coming, presently made them hurry back to the house, laden, however, with sea-wrack and spindrift. From Wordnik.com. [Bob Strong's Holidays Adrift in the Channel] Reference
Although the hungry billows still followed the Wavecrest little water came inboard for a time save the spindrift whipped from the crests of the waves. From Wordnik.com. [Swept Out to Sea Clint Webb Among the Whalers] Reference
The air was filled with spindrift like a fog or spray. From Wordnik.com. [The Mutiny of the Elsinore] Reference
Stinging, ringing spindrift, nor the fulmar flying free. From Wordnik.com. [The Seven Seas] Reference
On the 17th we left the bay, and the spindrift and the spray of the. From Wordnik.com. [Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated,] Reference
More was coming and through the sheeting rain and spindrift the voice of the. From Wordnik.com. [The Beach of Dreams] Reference
He's keeping his body between her an 'the spindrift till the squall has passed. From Wordnik.com. [The Man] Reference
Sandy Rowl swept his hand over the prospect of fog and spindrift and wind-swept ice. From Wordnik.com. [Harbor Tales Down North With an Appreciation by Wilfred T. Grenfell, M.D.] Reference
The wind snatched a thin spindrift from the crest and flung it past like a squall of rain. From Wordnik.com. [Harbor Tales Down North With an Appreciation by Wilfred T. Grenfell, M.D.] Reference
The spindrift tore asunder at length, and the watchers caught a brief glimpse of the tumbling ocean. From Wordnik.com. [The Iron Trail] Reference
No, before us lay the picture of the rolling deep, its long green swells breaking high in white spindrift. From Wordnik.com. [The Lady and the Pirate Being the Plain Tale of a Diligent Pirate and a Fair Captive] Reference
There was a tossing line of white water -- the crests of the breakers flying away in spindrift like long white manes in the wind. From Wordnik.com. [Harbor Tales Down North With an Appreciation by Wilfred T. Grenfell, M.D.] Reference
A fine spindrift settled on the farther side of the bay, so that at times their own shore was cut out from view for many moments. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Alaskans] Reference
The tossing crests are blown into spindrift against the weather yardarm, while a pelting hailstorm stings the wet, cold hands and faces. From Wordnik.com. [All Afloat A Chronicle of Craft and Waterways] Reference
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